Buckle



day 20, 1924.

R.A.MOORE aucxnz Filed Nov. 5, 1923 Patented May 20, 1924.

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- Application filed No'irember, 5, 1923/ serial no. 672,732

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RoswELL A. Moons,

a citizen of the'United States, residing at Vaterbury, in the county ofNew Haven. and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Buckles; and I do hereby declare the following, whentaken in connection with the accompanylng drawings and the characters ofreference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application,

andrepresent, in. i i v Fig. 1 a View in front elevation of a rust-lessbuckle embodying my invention, shown as applied toa pieceof webbing.Fig. 2 a view thereof in edge elevation.

Fig. 3 a view thereof in vertical, longitudinal section, the webbingbeing shown in edge elevation. i

Fig. 4 a detached, plan view of the buckleframe blank.

Fig. 5 a view of the buckle-frame in vertical section.

My invention relates to an improvement in rustless buckles, of thetype-shown and described in United States Patent No. 847; 811, grantedMarch '19, 1907, on the application of Morris Peller, the object of mypresent invention being to produce a sheetmetal buckle of the typedescribed, in which the attachment of the fixed end of the webbing tothe buckle-frame is effected without resorting to sewing and with an.economy of time, labor, thread and webbing.

lVith these ends in View, my invention consists in a sheet-metal,rustless buckle characterized by having its frame provided withintegral, upstanding clamping-prongs originating below and cut throughits upper edge, whereby the fixed end of the webzsta'nding ears 7,r"bent;forward at a. right angle to. its plane and-"formed withperforations 8wfor the reception of thepintles 9 :of a sheet-metal.buckle-lever comprising aJ finger-piece. 10 and a gripping-edge 11. 1 hesaid parts areconstructed-and pro port-ioned so thatthe. edge 1-1 of thebucklelever' deflectsthe webbing 12 over the hori zontal upper edge 13of the buckle-frame 6 and over,the' cushioning-bend '14: produced inthejwebbing 12',-'adjacent-to' its fixed end For attaching-the fixed end159 of the webbing to thebuckleframe without resorting to sewing, thebuckle-frame is formed, as.- herein shown, with four upstanding,integral gripping-prongs 17, spaced equally apart, and originating belowand. cut through its upper edge 13. In the blank state (Fig. 4C) of thebuckle-frame, these prongs extend above its upper-edge 13, but when setforward therefrom for the initial insertion ofgwhat is to become thefixed end 15 of the webbing" between the front face of the frame and;the rear faces of the said prongs, the upper. ends of the prongs aresufficiently retracted, as it were, to fall sufficiently below theentire buckle-lever when the same is thrown back into its open position,as indicated by broken lines in Fig. 3, to clear the same for theengagement of the clinching tool (not shown), whatever its form, withtheir front faces" for the purpose of firmly clamping them upon the saidend 15 of the webbing, so as to permanently attach the same to thebuckle-frame, as shown in Fig. 3. Under the construction abovedescribed, the fixed end of the webbing is clamped between thev prongsand the portion of the frame from which they are actually out, the cutedges of the prongs and the cut edges of the frame pinching and fiutingthe webbing. so as to hold the same with a firmer grip than when anupturned edge is, or prongs are, bent so as to co-act with a solid oruncut portion of the frame. Moreover, by cutting the prongs through theupper edge of the frame, the length of webbing going into its fixed endis reduced to the minimum, with obvious economy.

As shown, the lower portion of the buckleframe is struck up from reartofront to form four symmetrical, crescent-shaped stiffening ribs 18,straddling the bases of the ioa prongs, but these ribs may be omitted,if desired. The number of prongs may also be varied from the numbershown.

I claim:

1. In a rustless buckle, the combination with a sheet-metal buckle-framehaving prongs originating below and cut through its upper edge andstruck forward from rear to front for the insertion and clamping betweenthem and its'front face of the fixed end of the webbing, which is passedfrom front to rear, overthe cut upper edge of the frame andvcarried downover the rear face thereof; of a buckle-lever mounted in the saidbuckle-frame in position to deflect --the running portion of the webbingsubstantially over the loop formed by passing the said fixed edge of thewebbing from front to rear over the cut upper edge of the frame v anddownward back of the same.

2. In a rustless buckle, the combination with a sheet-metal buckle-framehaving prongs originating below and cut through its upper edge andstruck forward from rear to front for the insertion and clamping betweenthem and its front faceof the fixed end of thewebbing, which is passedfrom front to rear, over the cut upper edge of the frame and carrieddown over the rear face thereof; ofa buckle-lever mounted in the saidbuckle-frame in position to deflect the running portion of the webbingsubstantially over the loop formedby passing the said fixed edge of thewebbing from front to rear over the cut upper edge of the frameanddownward back of the same, the said frame and buckle-lever beingconstructed and proportioned so that, when the lever is thrown back intoits open position, clearance is provided for the means employed towsetthe prongs from front to rear upon the fixed end of the webbing withoutremoving the said lever from the said frame.

3. In a rustless buckle, the combination with a sheet-metal buckle-frameformed at its ends with upwardly-projecting perforated ears bent forwardat a right angle to it and with a plurality of integral, upstandingclamping-prongs originating below and extending through its upper edgeand set forwardly of its front face, for the reception between the sameand their rear faces of the fixed end of the webbing upon which they areclamped. whereby the fixed end of the webbing is clamped between theprongs and the portion of the frame from which they are immediately outof a buckle-lever mount- ROSWELL A. Moons.

Vitnesees JEROME R. LAVIGNE, EMILY M, FRANEK.

